Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-05-28

period, when the trio, Judge Lot, his part
ner, Vanderbilt, and Henry G. Murphy,
afterwards Senator, dominated the party.
| He attacked their power and broke and
| ended it, and SO became the leader. Many
| men have since attacked him, Kinsella, of
| the Eagle, General Slocum and William
| Marshall among others, but they only in
terrupted or ANNOYED him for time. Now
consider him as he is. He made little
| money as a fish merchant and invested it
| shrewdy in real estate, so that he is COM
| fortably but not well off. He held one Of
flee in his life, that of Register. Even in
| the party organization he is merely men,
| Der of the Democratic association of the
| First Ward. He never was accused of max
| ing penny out of politics otherwise than
| by the fees or salary he drew as Register.
No man does or ever did dare approach
| him with dishonest proposition. Yet he
runs Brooklyn politics, or, as he would put
it, oversees the interests of the people, all
day long, six davs in the week, doing work
| that is disagreeable, some that is painful,
an amount that is arduous, for which a
shrewd business man would not take 500
600 year and fill the place a second year.
And instead of money Hugh Mclaughlin
gets the satisfaction of the sense of power.
| Curious, isn't it? He has a service-roll
longer than that of the King of Holland,
and he likes to know il aud to feel it, and
in that he gets his pay.
| He lives in four-story brown-stone
house on top of the hill, at the foot of
which he was born, for he is an American.
| He has wife who devotes herself to
charity, and makes the politicians think
more of good works and pay more toward
the doing of them than many ever thought
they would before they knew her. These
| two have two maiden daughters, Is and g.
and a lovely home. The Boss, after break
| fast each day, and after he has rubbed up
| his gun or looked over his fishing tackle
| walks over to the auction room and sits
down by his desk. He has no lease there
or interest in the place. or kinsbip with
| the owner; be simply goes there as he has
| for many years, and will for wears, because
it happens so. He finds his letters there
and looks them over and answers one or
! two by the time the callers begin to come
| After that you see the king. The courtiers
come, the officials come, the favorites
| come, the crowds come. There is business,
| there is gossip, there is State news. there is
complaining. There he sits all day and
| listens-a TALL well-buiit man, erect and
| firm, with mild features and an amieable
expression, twinkling blue eyes an iron
gray mus;aehe, iron-gray hsir, a little thin
on top, and iron-gray tufts of whiekers at
each ear. His head is well poised. his pro-
| file is strong. He tips the beam at go.
| There he sits and listens, speaking to so
many IN n.onosylebAos that be is called reti-
cent, whereas TO his iHtimates he is as free
! spoken as a girl He tzkes now chew OF
| tobacco. now a cigar, but all the time
he listens. He is feeling the pulse of the
party and weighing its boasts. and hopes
! and griefs and unhappy auguries or present
| lrTitants. he has report l.oni each ward
In Brooklyn every morning, from the ward
leader or the man nearest To the leader
exactly as the Chief OF Police does from
every precinct. And mind you. not a
thing is done in public life in Brooklyn
without his approval. he is as absolute
power az You will find anywhere in the
world. No one dares to 20 against him.
he is The incarnation of the spirit Of the
party organization, the condensed essence
OF the local Democracy.
Don't leap 70 the conclusion that the
boss gets Tin" and Bob z and Jack"